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Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-19
A CAR CONDUCTORS EXPERT
ENCE.
He Thought One of His. Passengers
a Criminal.


"Queerest thing happened on my
car the other day that / ever heard
OF" said a sleeping Car conductor on
the New York Central. "Coming
into the city we were little late and
didn't reach town until 7:30 P. NJ,
when we should have been in by 6
o'clock. One of my passengers was a
rather elderly and infirm woman,
with long sallow face, dull, sunken
eyes, u languid air, and tawny hair
that was too straight to be pretty.
She was plainly dressed and too
homely and common to attract any at
tention from the drummers who sat
near her. All the afternoon she kept
inquiring if we'd get into New York
on time, and appeared very nervous
about it. Finally, 1 told her we
couldn't get in till nearly s o'clock,
and then she said she wanted the use
OF the stateroom about half an hour
and didn't want to be disturbed.
Well l didn't pay any more attention
to her for some time, but just before
we arrived at the central station
passed through the car, and sitting
there in the seat where the old woman
had been was girl-as pretty and
bright girl as l ever saw in my life
with a round, creamy face, bright eyes
and golden ringlets, and she was
beautifully dressed.
''' Something wrong here says |
to myself, and am going to find out
what it is So l approached her and
asked to see her train check. She
showed it to me and it was all right.
" Do you know what has become OF
the old party who had this berth last
night?" inquired.
/" 1 don't know anything about any
Old party, she snapped out as went
away.
co Some mystery says T. to myself.
There has been a murder or disap-
pearance, or an attempt to ride two
people on one ticket, or something,
and l am going to find out what it is.
hunted all through the car, and even
went forward into the passenger
coaches, but no trace could get OF
my old woman passenger. By this
time I was thoroughly excited, and as
the train drew into the station | called
the company's detective, pointed the
young woman out to him and told him
the strange facts.
"'LooR it up says I to him.
There's been foul play OF some sort,
sure"
"The detective accompanied the
young woman to carriage and l saw
him talk to her. She laughed, showed
a ROSY mouth and pearly teeth, and
then he laughed until l thought he
would fall to pieces.
"' What's the trouble says l. as
her carriage drove away.
"'Trouble ? echoed the detective.
fThere's no trouble except that you
are a confounded idiot. Can't pretty
young ballet dancer make her toilet on
your car when she's pusned for time
and has got to get right from the tram
to the theater without you suspectting
her of murder and insulting her?"-
brakes Travellers Magazine.
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Edward Wilder, OF New YORK, ap-
piled to an insanity expert in Brook
ivn 70 have his adonted daughter
- Th;a o,o
pla2eo III d private "syiuh'' n'' oi4o
fact brought out most remarka-
BILE story. In a little frame cottage on
Ti,artv Avenue in the town of New
lots ~ Years 400 lived Louis Hart
and his vie Catherine. They had
fonr @ remarkahlv nreftv children.
Three wnra bovs and The other, the
ro,,noast Maro,,erite was a beautiful
i;ttia o;rl hut 1S months old. Their
nsvt door neiohhor was Edward
Wilder a wealthy man, who seeing
the struggle of Louis Hart for exist
ence finally obtained his consent to
the adoption of little Marguerite. She
was separated from her family and
Grew to be a handsome, intelligent
Girl and the favorite of her set.
In the Summer of 1888 her adopted
father, for she knew no other, took
her to Newport, where she was the ac-
knowledged belle. 1t was generally
known that she was an heiress, and
that with her beauty, brought many
suitors to her feet. Among them was
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The Oueen's PiOus servant.

Just before the court left Windsor
recently new servant was taken on
at the castle. He was Scotchman
who belonged to a family in which
her Majesty takes a kindly interest,
and had lived nearly all his life with
two old ladies', long way north OF
Tweed. These ladies followed the
GOOD custom OF holding family wor--
Ship each morning, at which, OF
course, their servants attended. For
obvious reasons such d praiseworthy
practice is out OF question at Windsor
Castle, where the servants are some
two hundred in number, and where
the Queens own private breakfast ta-
BILE is only one of many others. Her
Majesty always breakfasts quite alone,
and it is her custom to sound a hand
bell as signal for the attendants who
wait outside the door to enter when
she is ready to be waited on. On the
morning in question the Queen rang
the bell as usual, and the servants en-
tered-one an old servant, the other
the piously-nurtured Highlander. his
duty was to take his stand at the side
board and supply the other with what
ever delicacy her Majesty might Sc
lect from the menu. But the instincts
of early training were too much fol
him. Instead Of making for the side
board he proceeded to the nearest
chair, knelt down there with his back
to the Queen, and there waited witt
folded hands for her Majesty to com
mence the morning service to which
his former mistresses had accustomed
him
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-19
THE POLITICAL PANACEA

"Whcn you get in snarl
Just open q bar'l,"
The candidate said to his clerk;
To silence blgot,
Just take out the spigot,
And watch how the process will work;
For when you are in a political snarl
There is nothing will take out the knots like o
barl.
"Don't buster and quart
But open your bari,
Meath its bung dwells harmony sweet;
Don't deal in distractions
With renegade factions,
But Just give them something concrete.
When rude passions are aroused in political
parle,
Rush down to your bunghole and open your
bari.
"Don't sniffle and snarl,
But omen your barl,
1t soothes all political pains;
No medicine mixer
Has such an elixir
As the bari which worship contains.
Binds up every cism, and heals every quarl
This sweet balm Of healing keep in my barl.
''When you get in snar'l
Just open your bar'l,
Balm o. Gicad flows from Its bung;
Twill silence all squealers.
And heel all the heelers,'
And oil the demagogue's tongue.
True wisdom will teach, when you get in a
snarl
To rush to your bunghole and open your bari"
-Tid-B Bits
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-19
MATRsMONY DISCOUNTEr,.
A Mending Bureau Established In
Chicago.

Women are natural philanthropists.
wherever there is need OF them there
they are. Scott says so, it will be re-
membered, in as neat quatrain as
ever celebrated the excellence of the
sex.
And the spirit of Scott will feel
gratified to be sustained by recent de-
velopments. Briefly: Chicago has a
mending bureau. The young man
knows now wherewithal he will mend
his underclothing and get his buttons
sewed- on. 1t is woman's institution,
OF course, and has been started by a
Young lady well known to the patrons
OF the Woman's Exchange, where she
has been superintendent for a number
Of years.
" | read about the mending bureaus
OF New York and Philadelphia" said
the young lady, pausing in her work
on q delicate piece of embroidery
land as they were said to be very
successful determined to try the plan
in Chicago. You would think from
the work | have to do that the entire
city had been waiting for some one to
mend their clothes for them. The
young men especially bring a quantity
of clothing-everything, from neckties
to hosiery. It's odd men never learn
to mend, isn't it? What would be
said about women if they lacked the
gumption to do such simple and
necessary thing? However, person.
ally, l am glad they don't, for it gives
me more of a chance. l have good
deal of work from women with large
families, too. A mother with city
house to look after, her calls to keeF
up, and sewing to look after, with per.
haps an afternoon week at a reading
or literary club, doesn't have much
time for mending. Besides there is q
good deal Of mending that an ordinary
sewer cannot dot requires great ex.
perience to darn a silk dress, for in
stance, so that it won't be seen, anc
the darning of lace and embroidery is
difficult Also"
And now when the papers ask
Why don't our young men marry?
it will be easy to answer them-be
cause they can get their mending done
elsewhere. Omaha Herald.
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Travelling In England.

The steamers about the British
coast are divided into classes, and
great rigor is maintained to separate
those who have money from those
who have little of it. and yet l think
that they can get up as dismal an
entertainment, considering the num-
Der of their steamers, as anywhere on
the globe. Frequently about London
one sees two-thirds OF the passengers,
women included, standing up on deck
for want of seats, while below stairs
the saloon is under water, half
lighted, ill-ventilated, and in crossing
the British chained, from Southamp-
ton and Newhaven, a matter of from
four hours to ten hours, cushions ar
ranged like steps, some passengers
vomiting, some drinking, some drunk
and the bags and umbrellas flung all
over the berths to pre-empt them, so
that one knows not where to lay his
head
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-19
A lairl,S Mistake.

The reader has heard of the girl who
opened the oysters. threw away the
meats, washed and boiled the shells,
and served them piping hot to an as
tonished family. Mrs. Smiths maid
did something worse. When Mrs.
Smith was in Paris she paid fabu-
lous sum for a sort of bourette cloth
that had at intervals something like
caterpillars woven into the loose
meshes OF the wool. The weather is
cool enough to wear that odd but fine
attire, and she longed to exhibit her
unique toilet. She, laid the dress out
and bade her new dressing-maid re-
move the hastings that had held some
plaitings in place during its travels.
She left the luncheon table at 2 and
found her smart maid with sharp
pair of scissors picking out the chunks
OF colored floss silk that had made SO
gorgeous material OF a plain bour,
cite.
"They looked for all the world like
! caterpillars, ma 'am." said the girl,
"but I've got the most OF 'em off,"
Mrs. Smith sat down and wept, but
the unfeeling Smith husband laughed,
and declared that he hadn't been sc
tickled since he touched woman in 6
theater and said, You have spider
on your shoulder, ma'am," and the
woman jumped to her feet and
screamed, "Take it off! Where is
it?" Then Smith pointed out 81 finely
executed spider in enamel for which
she had paid $25, and which she hac
pinned carefully on her shoulder be
fore leaving the house.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-19

A well-known physician, speaking
the other day OF the progress made in
medical skill, said the greater success
which had attended surgical operations
during the past ten years was largely
due to the discovery and use OF an
tiseptic dressings of exposed surfaces.
Antiseptic dressing is simply a lotion
in which the surface exposed by the
surgeons knife is bathed constantly
until the operation is completed, and
which prevents the poisonous germs
in the atmosphere from poisoning the
wound and getting into the blood. In
this way surgeon can lay open a
mans leg or his arm for the purpose
of treating a compound fracture, and
do his work at his leisure, without the
fear that before he has finished his
patient will have absorbed the seeds
of death into his system. He saio
that it used to be that compound
fracture cases were commonly fatal
Ii he lost one now, it was the eXcep
ton. Out OF twenty hospital cases
under his care, only one had died, ano
that was due to the negligence OF the
house surgeon.-EX.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-19
FED ON GREEyBACKS.
Squirrels Dieting OH a Miser's
Treasure in Connecticut.

Treasure in Connecticut.
WATERBURY, Conn, Oct. 23.-
Squirrels have been growing fat in
Morris on diet of greenbacks. They
were the hoard of eccentric John O.
Maloney, who died six weeks ago,
having lived for 65 years, bachelor
and a hard worker. People supposed
him well-to-do. His friends had eau
toned him against keeping his money
in his house or about his person, and
advised him to deposit it in some bank.
Maloney had smiled knowingly, re-
marked that any person who at
tempted to find his Doodle would have
mighty big hunt. After his death
diligent search was made, but nothing
could be found of the large sum of
money he was supposed to have
secreted. It was finally concluded
that the eccentric old man had been
robbed during his last sickness. Sew
eral persons were suspected, but no
proofs could be obtained.
Two Morris sportsmen have solved
the mystery. They were out hunting
when they shot and wounded an enor-
| nous gray squirrel, which crawled
into an old box curiously perched be-
| tween two branches OF tree high
above the surrounding limbs. One of
| the men climbed the tree, and with
considerable difficulty reached the
box. Having lowered it he found the
squirrel stretched out dead in pile of
chewed up bank-notes. The two men
on counting their treasure found that
not single bill had been left intact
by the squirrels, and it was impossible
to tell the denomination OF single
| bill. Persons who have examined the
mutilated bills are all of the opinion
that there could not have been less
than 81 900 in the box. Several resi-
dents now remember having seen
Maloney going toward the tree on
different occasions, and there is no
doubt that the money found was hid
dan by him
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Notice OF Forfeiture,

ggyO DAN HOLIDAY, CO-OWNER: YOU
are hereby notified that the undersigned
has expended the sum of one hundred dollars
In labor and improvements upon the Lost mine
and lode, situate in the Mineral Hill Mining
District, Eureka county, Nevada, during the
year A. d. 1856, in conformity with the provis-
ions Of Section 1924 Revised Statutes OF the
United States, being the amount required to
old the same. And il within ninety days
after this notice by publication You fail or re-
fuse to contribute your proportion of such ex-
penditure as co owner, your interest in said
claim will tecome the property Of the sub
scriber under said Section 1924. B. BERG.
Eureka, Eureka county, Nevada, October 20,
| 1887 o22.9Od
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A Novel Device.

Woman's ingenuity is exemplitied
bv a Maine woman who takes pleas
ure in her poultry, and who has adopt
ed simple but excellent method Tor
keeping her chickens at home. She
ties a small corncob to one leg, allow
ing it to dangle at a distance OF about
six inches. The fowl can scratch and
get about with ease, but, it is SAID
will not attempt to fly over palings Oh
squeeze through crack.
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Patent Brace and BIT.

A large invoice of the new patent brace
and bit, of Gavin & Cromer's invention
is expected in few days by Remington,
johnson & Co., they being the local agent,
for the sale of them. Parties desiring
them should send in their orders to secure
early attention.
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Notice..

DIR. J. J. Leek will take another trip
about October 81. He will go to Wells,
Fort Halleck, Sprucemont and Cherry
Greek. He will be absent about six weeks,
He will visit Cherry Creek first.
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AN ACT

AN ACA
TO REGULATE HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION, DANCE
HOUSES AND HOUSES WHERE BEER, WINE OR
sPIRrTUoUs LIQUORS ARE SOLD.
The People Of the State, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as fol-
lows:
SECTION 1. 1t shall be unlawful for any
owner, or agent of any owner, or any
other person to keep any house of ill-fame,
or to let or rent fer any length of time
whatever TO any woman of ill-fame any
house, room or structure situated within
four hundred yards Of any schoolhouse or
schoolroom used by any of the public
schools in the State of Nevada.
SEC. 2, 1t shall be unlawful for any
owner, or agent of any owner. or any
other person TO keep, let or rent for any
length of time, or at all, any house 'front.'
ing on the principal business street or thor
oughfare of any Of the towns of this State
for the purposes OF prostitution, or for the
purpose of keeping any dance-house, or
house commonly called "hurdy- house,"
or house where wine, beer or spirituous
liquors are sold or served by females or
female walters or attendants or when fe-
males are used or employed to attract or
solicit custom, nor shall any entrance or
exit way to any house referred to in this
section be made or used from the principal
business street or thoroughfare Of any Of
the towns of this State.
SEC. 8. Any persons violating the pro-
visions of Sections one or two Of this Act
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor,
and on conviction, shall be fined not less
| than twenty-five dollars, nor more than
three hundred dollars. or be imprisoned
in the County Jail not less than FIVE nor
more than sixty days, or by both such
fine and imprisonment, in the discretion
of the Court.
SEQ. 4. The provisions of this ACT
shall not apply to towns and cities now
Incorporated.
SEC. 5. In tho trial of all cases arising
under the provisions Of this Act, evidence
| Of general reputation shall be deemed
competent evidence as to the question OF
| the ill-fame of any house alleged to be
80 kept, and to the question of the i'll fame
| of such woman.
Sec. 6. 1t shall be the duty of the Dis
| trict Attorney and Sheriff OF each county
in this State to see that the provisions oi
this Act are strictly enforced and carried
into effect, and upon neglecting SO to do
they or either of them shall be deemed
guilty OF misdemeanor in Office, and may
be proceeded against as provided in Sec
tions 63 and 70 inclusive of an Act en-
titled 'An Act relating to elections" ap
proved March IL. 1878.
SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect and
be in force from and after the fret day O.
| May, 1887.
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Notice of Assessment.
Ruby HiIl Tunnel ana Mining Com.
pRny.

T oOATION OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF
IL business, Eureka, Eureka county, Ne
vRdR.
Location of WORDS, Eureka Mining District,
Eureka county, State of Nsvads.
Notice is hereby given that at meeting of
the Board of Directors, held on the goth day OF
October, 1887, an assessment tNo. AZ of One
Cent per share was levied upon the capital stock
OF the corporation, payable immediately in
United States gold coin, to the Secretary, at
the Office of the company, in Ryland's Building,
Eureka, Nevada
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on
Tuesday, the 22d Day Of November,
1857.
will be delinquent, and advertised for sale at
public auction; aud unless payment is made
before, will be sold on THURSDAY, the 22d
dag of December, 1887, TO pay the delinquent
assessment. together with the costs of adver-
tising and expenses of sale
BY order of the Bosrd of directors.
B. +. MoEWEN, secretary.
Ofice-Rylsnd's Building, Eureka, Nevada.
Eureka, Oct. 20, 1887. o22-td
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TO REGULATE HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION, DANcI
HOUSES AND HOUSES WHERE BEER, WINE Oh
ePIRITUoUs LIQUORS ARE SOLD.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-19
FAMOUS FRoNTIERsMEN.

'In the course OF my travels | be-
came well acquainted with all {,
famous frontiersmen of the west. L
knew Kit Carson well. Bill Williams 1
have often seen. He was Fremont s
guide on the disastrous expedition
which tried to cross the mountains in
November, was showed in, and persisted
to a man, with the exception of Will
liams. who sustained life by feeding
upon the dead bodies OF his comrades.
He subsequently acted as guide to
Fremont, and was finally killed by the
Indians. La Rue, who was last in the
SHOWS OF the San Juan country; Jim
Beckwourk, who was adopted by an
Indian tribe and became kind of a
chief among them; Lucien Maxwell,
who lived upon what was then known
as the Cimarron grant, but has since be-
come famous as the Maxwell grant,
and the famous Bill Bent. of Bent's
Fort, brother of Captain SIlas Bent, OF
this city, were all my friends and com.
rades.
After spending about ten years in
the New Mexican trade, | transferred
nv field of operations to the northern
plains, and freighted for Albert Sidney
Johnson's Utah expedition in 1858. Al
times l had as many as a hundred
wagon trains on the trail. Our start
ing point was Atchison- and our destin-
alton Salt Lake. In those days it was
an easy thing for poor young man to
get to California. A young fellow
would come to me and ask for the posi-.
ton of teamster. We were always
anxious to get men, and few were re-
fused a place. A teamster received g
complete outfit, and by the time we
reached our journeys end he had $10C
or $500 to his credit Half a dozen OF
them would buy one OF my teams. and
carry freight to California. arriving at
their destination with several hundred
dollars in their pockets. Those were
the days for poor man to go west.
THE OLD STAGE DAYS.
"In 1859 started daily stage line
between Denver and the Missouri River,
and also line from Salt Lake to the
same point. The stages made about l25
miles a day, making ths trip from
Denver in five days and from Salt Lake
in ten days. The Indians were worse
in this country than they were further
south, aud both wagon trains and stages
were we'll provided with weapons, in
spite of which precsution the Indians
captured two of my stages. and killed all
the passengers. Our stage teams were
composed of horses and mules, and
each team was driven about twelve
miles IN stage going west, and after q
rest took the cas- bound stage to the
starting point Nv wagons were drawn
by six yoke of oxen. 1t was the habit
in latter days to make what is called
tsaIl-wagons. by fastening together two
or three ordinary wagons. the whole be
ing drawn by eight or ten yoke of steers
requiring but one driver, but in my
time the danger from indians was to
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great to admit of any diminution of
force. 1 ran my freight wagons and
stages until 1868. when sold out to the
famous Ben Halliday, who operated the
stages until the railroad drove them
from the field. l do not think that
there are many men now alive who
have seen as much of frontier life as
have. In someways it is bard, rough
life, but full of adventure and excite
ment, and few who have ever tasted its
untrammeled freedom"
CoI. Majors told his story with the
STRAIGHTFORWARD simplicity of a from
tiersman, modestly declining to relate
his personal adventures, which are said
nv those acquainted with his history to
be many and thrilling. Democrat.
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LEGAL NOTICE.
IN the Probate Co,rt ia and for salt Lake
County, Territory of Utah.
In the matter of the Estate of Dirk Bockholt
deceased.
Notice OF time and place for the hearing OF
Petition for admission to Probate
of will

DURSUANT To AN ORDER OF SAID
J. Court in said matter, notice is hereby
given that Friday, the 9th day of January,
A D., 1887, at II O'Clock a. m, at the County
Court House in Salt Lake City, Utah Terri
tory, in the court room of said Court, has
been appointed the me and place for the
hearing of a petition OF Christina o. Book
holt, Olida A. H. BockhOlt and Dream P.
Bockholt, praying for the admission to pro-
bate OF g certain document herewith pre-
scented, purporting 10 be the last VIII and
Testament of Dirk Bockholt, deceased, when
and where all persons interested. may APP
pear and oppose the probate OF said viii, or
t e granting of letters OF administration
with the viii annexed to William Fuller as
prayed for in said petition.
Dated at Salt Lake CITY, January II, lSSI.
JOHN c. CUTLER,
Probate Clerk, Salt Lake County